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* PrinceCharming: A rare modern example. Despite his introduction and tendency to win with trickery, Nikolai fits all the key traits. He is a very handsome prince with a magnetic personality, who is very brave, and is also quite kind and fair, and he's also fundamentally good.
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* PrinceCharmless: An arrogant brat who annoys most characters. He proposes to Alina but she very carefully turns him down.
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* WhiteSheep: His father, [[spoiler:actually step-father]], raped Genya, his servant, when she was still a child and likely did this to other servants. Additionally, he's a naive and apathetic ruler who ran his country into the ground. Nikolai's mother, the queen, groomed and physically abused Genya, and appears just as negligent to the common people as her husband. Nikolai's brother is an [[RoyalBrat entitled brat]] who never puts an ounce of work in, looks down on the common people, and wants to lower the draft age to thirteen. Nikolai, by contrast, cares deeply for the people of Ravka and will do anything to do right by them, including giving his life. He is constantly working, has a strong sense of justice, and generally does the right thing.
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* PrincelingRivalry: Inverted. Nikolai sees his brother as unsuitable for the throne, but tries to just act as a better ruler rather than trying to physically hurt his older brother. Vasily, however, likely tried to poison Nikolai when he was twelve.
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* PrincelingRivalry: Subverted. Nikolai thinks his older brother is unsuitable for the throne, but he tries to act as a better ruler, rather than trying to assassinate his older brother. In fact, Nikolai never tries to actually physically hurt his older brother, despite his brother likely trying to poison him when he was a child.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dies after a nichevo'ya tears his arm right out of his socket, and he bleeds to death.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Always heavily drinking. Always shows up to key war meeting hungover.
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* TheAlcoholic: Always Loves heavily drinking. Always shows up to key war meeting meetings hungover.
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* BigBrotherBully: Called Nikolai "Nikolai Nothing" despite Nikolai's hero worship of him when Nikolai was a child, constantly implies Nikolai is a bastard, and likely tried to poison Nikolai when he was twelve.
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* TheAlcoholic: Always heavily drinking. Always shows up to key war meeting hungover.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: As Crown Prince, Vasily studied ruling and statecraft, but he's clearly, in charm, strategy, politics, and looks, completely outshone by his younger brother.
* EntitledBastard: Thinks he is owed the throne, and yet puts in absolutely no effort to rule the country or figure out Ravka's problems.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: As Crown Prince, Vasily studied ruling and statecraft, but he's clearly, in charm, strategy, politics, and looks, completely outshone by his younger brother.
* EntitledBastard: Thinks he is owed the throne, and yet puts in absolutely no effort to rule the country or figure out Ravka's problems.
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* SpoiledBrat: Vasily is the crown prince of a country on the brink of war that is nearly bankrupt. He continues to live an ostentatious lifestyle, spending his time getting drunk and spending the country's tight finances betting on horses. His solution to the country's problems is to lower the draft age to thirteen. He frequently shows up to council meetings drunk, and gets angry when he can't have his way.
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* MindRape: What [[spoiler:the Darling did to Nikolai, by turning him into a monster]], had strong shades of this. [[spoiler: The Darkling forced [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything something into Nikolai and Nikolai tried to fight back but couldn't.]] He made Nikolai completely helpless to his own body and mind, and totally perverted who he was. Luckily, after the Darkling’s death, he gets his own body back again, but, in the sequel series, is still haunted by what happened.]]
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* MindRape: What [[spoiler:the Darling Darkling did to Nikolai, by turning him into a monster]], had strong shades of this. [[spoiler: The Darkling forced [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything something into Nikolai and Nikolai tried to fight back but couldn't.]] He made Nikolai completely helpless to his own body and mind, and totally perverted who he was. Luckily, after the Darkling’s death, he gets his own body back again, but, in the sequel series, is still haunted by what happened.]]
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* CallForward: It is stated in ''The Demon in the Wood'' that as a [[UsedToBeASweetKid child]], the Darkling ''loved sunlight'' and was ''afraid of the dark'', perhaps foreshadowing his future infatuation with Alina, the sun summoner.
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* RedHeadsAreRavishing: Has red hair and is considered to be very beautiful, both by Alina (who comments on Genya's beauty constantly in her narration) and by the standards of the world around her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Darkling has this appeal for Alina, encouraged by her belief that Mal has forgotten about her. [[spoiler:She comes to despise him after the events of the first book, [[EvilIsSexy but a very strong attraction is still clearly there.]]]]
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Darkling has this appeal for Alina, encouraged by her belief that Mal has forgotten about her. [[spoiler:She comes to despise him after the events of the first book, [[EvilIsSexy but a very strong attraction is still clearly there.]]]]]]
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* Mind Rape: What [[spoiler:the Darling did to Nikolai, by turning him into a monster]], had strong shades of this. [[spoiler: The Darkling forced [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything something into Nikolai]]. He left Nikolai completely helpless to his own body and mind, and totally perverted who he was. Luckily, after the Darkling’s death, he gets his own body back again, but, in the sequel series, is still haunted by what happened.]]
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* Mind Rape: MindRape: What [[spoiler:the Darling did to Nikolai, by turning him into a monster]], had strong shades of this. [[spoiler: The Darkling forced [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything something into Nikolai]]. Nikolai and Nikolai tried to fight back but couldn't.]] He left made Nikolai completely helpless to his own body and mind, and totally perverted who he was. Luckily, after the Darkling’s death, he gets his own body back again, but, in the sequel series, is still haunted by what happened.]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: David is by no means ugly, but he is described as being rather plain, enough to get people wondering why someone as supposedly drop dead gorgeous Genya would go for him. Well, David is played by Luke Pasqualino in the Netflix adaptation, so it's really not hard to imagine why at all.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: David is by no means ugly, but he is described as being rather plain, enough to get people wondering why someone as supposedly drop dead gorgeous as Genya would go for him. Well, David is played by Luke Pasqualino in the Netflix adaptation, so it's really not hard to imagine why at all.
